DAD

photo by Claudia Heidelberger

What can I say?  Happy Father's Day, dudes!  We all really need you - our heroes!!    (Cutie commercial below.)




                                 

Principle in the type:  "A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time.  It is a calling for both time and eternity."     Ezra Taft Benson

                                                                                         Happy Weekend FamBams!

RAISING THE BAR

photo by Valentina Yachichurova

Parenting 101:  Don't leave your baby in the car while you go to a strip club.  Don't leave your baby in the car anywhere.  Don't have a baby and spend your afternoons in a strip club.   
"A man was in custody Thursday after allegedly leaving his 9-month-old daughter in a car in Panorama City while he went into a nearby strip club, authorities said. . . . 'He parked and walked about two blocks to the club,' said police."  Passerby's found the baby and called 911.       news        

Principle in the type:  "As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.”        Thomas S. Monson

THE FAM-BAM, DRINKS, AND PRAYERS

photo by Craig Hawkins

What a game!  Some say it was the Denver Bronco's defense that dictated who'd snare the victory in Superbowl 50.  Still you gotta give it to 39-year-old quarterback Peyton Manning.  Now, will he continue on?  Will he retire?   Peyton would have a few beers, and say his thank-you prayers, but first  " 'I want to kiss my wife and kids. I want to go hug my family,' "  he told journalists when asked seconds after the game what his future plans were.  Sweet, right?!      news                   

Principle in the type:  "So much in life is extraneous, [but] . . . the family is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to."      Carla Carlisle   

SHUMPERT DELIVERS

photo by Allana

NBA star Iman Shumpert helped deliver his first child, --at home!   He "helped deliver [his and fiance Teyana Taylor's] baby when Taylor suddenly found herself in labor in the bathtub. . . . Shumpert . . . tied a pair of his red headphones around the umbilical cord of his daughter . . . until an ambulance arrived five minutes later."    ~Welcome to the Parent's Club, Ma and Pa!  story                             

Principle in the type:  "As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure.  Are our examples worthy of emulation?  Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?  Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed.  Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.”            Thomas S. Monson